Rowan-Flora Strachan is a multidisciplinary artist in her 3rd year of Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, working across painting, sound and sculpture. In her work, she peels back the layers of landscape, language and sound, exploring alternative methods of communication through visual layering of past, present and future.
Growing up in Wester Ross, she was immersed in large expanses of space, learning to comprehend the world through its continual shifting and patterns of movement. Her paintings reflect her processing of the natural world, light and the deep time of landscape in conjunction with the short-lived human experience. They explore colour, natural forms, gesture and sweeping shapes behind which, previous painted layers are visible - an on-going process of revelation and concealment.
She takes inspiration from in-between states – the space that exists between the spoken and written word, translation and misinterpretation, pages underneath those over the top and the slim gap between sound and music.